I hadn’t noticed the horn arrangement before, glad you pointed it out.

Too true

IIRC, dialogue from this was sampled on The Wall.

er, perhaps you mean East St Louis Toodle-Oo?

Re solo albums, I tend to reach for 11 Tracks of Whack before any other, although Sunken Condos is pretty good as well.

Not for me. It was my introduction to SD back in the day, and it still sounds great to me. I don’t think it’s had anywhere near the (over)exposure of those 2 other tracks, at least in the UK.

Time for a reappraisal? No

I have to disagree. It’s like eating your greens before being allowed pudding, it’s worth the effort for the reward.

Also useful to brush up on DR numbers.

DSOTM, WYWH, AWATS off the top of my head as unskippable.

Mark L worked for the BBC for a while (I believe), so no doubt he has utilised this for the (long awaited) second volume of the fabs book.

It’s a win-win for the gruesome twosome. If the health service situation in NI improves, the whole of the executive share in the glory; if not, UUP get it in the neck.

I seem to recall Macca telling Badfinger to copy his demo exactly, and it would be a hit (he was right). I also seem to recall it took him about an hour to do the whole thing himself.

That would make sense (I have the first 3 Dan albums & some singles on Probe), but the Alice Cooper is an oddity, as it was on Atlantic in the US, and Anchor here in blighty.

I believe Alice Cooper’s ‘Welcome to my Nightmare’ was on Anchor in the UK originally. I also think they issued a bunch of 12″ 4 track EPs from, among others, Steely Dan and the Coop.

After several years she began to think he may be a fraud? Took me less than 5 seconds.

I would, but life’s too short to make lists. Enjoy the last 375 days of the decade.

Being pedantic, there was no year 0.

I know at this point it’s a lost cause, but I still feel compelled to point out that the current decade will not be over until the end of 2020.

On I Saw Her Again by The Mamas & Papas, one of the Papas come in early on the last chorus, but it doesn’t sound out of place.